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Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The…
Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The nature of true virtue. / by the late Reverend, learned and pious Jonathan Edwards, A.M. president of the College in New-Jersey.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1765
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE PREFACE
THE author had designed these dissertations for the public view; and wrote them out as they now appear: though 'tis probable, that if his life had been spared, he would have revised them and rendered them in some respects more complete. Some new sentiments, here and there, might probably have been added; and some passages brightened with farther illustrations. This may be conjectured from some brief hints, or sentiments minuted down, on loose papers, found in the manuscripts.
THE author had designed these dissertations for the public view; and wrote them out as they now appear: though 'tis probable, that if his life had been spared, he would have revised them and rendred them in some respects more compleat. Some new sentiments, here and there, might probably have been added; and some passages brightened with farther illustrations. This may be conjectured from some brief hints, or sentiments minuted down, on loose papers, found in the manuscripts.
BUT those sentiments concisely sketched out, which, 'tis thought, the author intended to enlarge, and digest into the body of the work,—cannot be so amplified by any other hand, as to do justice to the author: 'tis therefore probably best that nothing of this kind should be attempted.
BUT those sentiments concisely sketch'd out, which, 'tis thought, the author intended to enlarge, and digest into the body of the work,—cannot be so amplified by any other hand, as to do justice to the author: 'tis therefore probably best that nothing of this kind should be attempted.